Horse riding is perilous!
Princess Anne is among our most stoic royals, so it came as a shock to learn that the 73-year-old is currently in hospita
While the exact cause of her injuries has not been confirmed, it's understood that her medical team says that her head injuries are consistent with a potential impact from a horse's head or legs.Princess Anne isn't the first of the royals to be hospitalised due to a horse-related injury, though. Read on for the mare-related mishaps the royals have been through...The King fractured a bone in his shoulder when he fell off a horse during a fox hunt in 2001.
2001 wasn't the King's first tumble. 11 years before, back in 1990 when he was 42, he broke his right arm in a fall during a polo match.Queen Elizabeth II broke her left wrist when her horse tripped, causing them both to fall in 1994."She was out riding on Saturday as usual when her horse tripped and fell and the Queen fell onto her left wrist," the spokesman said at the time.
Just three years prior, the Queen's daughter was forced to withdraw from the European Equestrian Championships in Kiez after a heavy fall. She and her horse Goodwill fell at a difficult double fence in the cross-country section.
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